In 1982, Steven Callahan was crossing the Atlantic alone in his sailboat when it
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In 1982, Steven Callahan was crossing the Atlantic alone in his sailboat when it struck something and sank. He got into a life boat, but his supplies were . His chances of surviving were small. when three fishermen found him 76 days later, he was alive —much than he was when he started, but alive.
His of how he survived is fascinating. His cleverness —how he to catch fish, how he evaporated (蒸发) sea water to fresh water—is very interesting.
But the thing that my eye was how he managed to keep himself going when all hope seemed lost, and there seemed no in continuing the struggle. He was starved and worn-out. Giving up would have seemed the only possible choice.
When people these kinds of circumstances, they do something with their minds that gives them the courage to keep going. Many people in desperate circumstances in or go mad. Something the survivors do with their thoughts helps them find the courage to carry on difficulties.
“I tell myself I can it,” wrote Callahan in his book. “Compared to what others have been through, I’m fortunate. I tell myself these things over and over, up courage…”
I wrote that down after I read it. It me as something important. And I’ve told myself the same thing when my own goals seemed off or when my problems seemed too terrible. And every time I’ve said it, I have always come back to my .
The truth is, our circumstances are only bad to something better. But others have been through the much worse, that is, in comparison with what others have been through, you’re fortunate. Tell this to yourself over and over again, and it will help you through the rough situations with a little more courage.
| 小题1: | | A．full | B．rich | C．few | D．enough |
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| 小题3: | | A．thinner | B．stronger | C．worse | D．healthier |
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| 小题4: | | A．attitude | B．assumption | C．instruction | D．account |
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| 小题5: | | A．assisted | B．tended | C．managed | D．intended |
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| 小题6: | | A．make | B．absorb | C．select | D．replace |
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| 小题7: | | A．attacked | B．caught | C．froze | D．cheated |
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| 小题8: | | A．operation | B．taste | C．message | D．point |
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| 小题9: | | A．firmly | B．completely | C．hardly | D．generally |
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| 小题10: | | A．deal | B．defend | C．survive | D．observe |
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| 小题11: | | A．similarly | B．differently | C．gradually | D．commonly |
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| 小题12: | | A．pull | B．take | C．break | D．give |
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| 小题13: | | A．for the lack of | B．in the face of | C．in exchange for | D．as a result of |
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| 小题14: | | A．handle | B．carry | C．follow | D．inspect |
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| 小题15: | | A．rolling | B．using | C．building | D．making |
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| 小题16: | | A．defeated | B．recommended | C．introduced | D．struck |
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| 小题18: | | A．feelings | B．senses | C．ideas | D．influences |
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| 小题19: | | A．related | B．measured | C．contributed | D．compared |
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答案
小题1:C
小题2:B
小题3:A
小题4:D
小题5:C
小题6:A
小题7:B
小题8:D
小题9:B
小题10:C
小题11:A
小题12:D
小题13:B
小题14:A
小题15:C
小题16:D
小题17:A
小题18:B
小题19:D
小题20:C |
解析
试题分析：这是一篇夹叙夹议的文章。Steven Callahan在独自穿越大西洋时，他的船沉了。他一次次地鼓励自己，“我能行”，他终于靠着顽强的意志和有效的生存技巧生还。作者被这句话打动，时常用它来勉励自己。
小题1:考查形容词：A．full满的，B．rich富有的，C．few很少，D．enough足够的，从上下文看Steven Callahan的船沉了，补给很少了。选C
小题2:考查副词：A．And 并且，B．Yet然而，C．Still仍然，D．Thus因此，这里是表示转折关系的副词，yet然而，在渔民发现他的时候，他还活着。选B
小题3:考查形容词的比较级，A．thinner更瘦，B．stronger更强壮，C．worse更糟糕，D．healthier更健康，饿了76天一定是很瘦弱的多。选A
小题4:考查名词：A. attitude态度B. imagination想象，C. instruction指示D. account描述，账户，句意：他怎么幸存的故事很有趣很吸引人。选D。
小题5:考查动词：A．assisted帮助，B．tended趋向于， C．managed设法成功的做， D．intended打算，这里是他成功的捕到鱼。选C。
小题6:考查动词：A．make制作，B．absorb吸收，C．select挑选，D．replace代替，句意：蒸发海水，获得可用的淡水。用make得到获得。选A
小题7:考查词组：A．attacked袭击，B．caught抓住，C．froze 冷冻，D．cheated欺骗， catch one’s eyes吸引某人的注意力，attract的宾语是attention。选B
小题8:考查名词：A．operation手术，B．taste品味， C．message信息，D．point观点，句型： it seems no point in doing…做…似乎是无用的。选D
小题9:考查副词：A. firmly坚定地，B. completely完全地，C. surely当然D. generally一般地，修饰exhausted是完全地。选B。
小题10:考查动词：A．deal处理，B．defend 保卫，C．survive幸存，D．observe观察，这里作者在进行总结和议论，当人们要在这样的环境中求生存时，他们需要进行思想斗争，已获得生存的勇气。选C
小题11:考查副词：A．similarly同样地， B．differently不同地，C．gradually逐渐地，D．commonly共同地，在遇到相似的环境的时候，用A
小题12:考查动词：A．pull推，B．take带，C．break破坏，D．give给，很多遇到相似的环境的人都放弃了或是疯了，选D
小题13:考查介词短语：A．for the lack of 缺乏 B．in the face of面对，C．in exchange for 做为交换，D．as a result of因为，虽然有这样大的危险，还有勇气生存下去。选B。
小题14:考查动词：A. handle处理B. carry运送，携带C. follow跟随，D. inspect视察，句意：我告诉自己能应付。选A。
小题15:考查词组：A. rolling up卷起来B. using up用完C. building up增强D. making up编造，这里是增加勇气。选C。
小题16:考查动词：A．defeated 击败，B．recommended 推荐，C．introduced介绍，D．struck敲，使想起，这使我想起重要的事情。选D。
小题17:考查形容词：A．far远的B．long长的， C．ever曾经， D．even甚至表示目标遥远。选A。
小题18:考查名词：A．feelings感觉，B．senses感觉，感官，C．ideas主意，D．influences影响，选B。每次我说的时候，都会恢复理性，选B。
小题19:考查动词：A．related和…有关，B．measured衡量，C．contributed贡献， D．compared 比较，compared to和…相比，和别人经历的事相比较，选D。
小题20:考查词组：A. see through看穿B. cut through切开C. get through 通过，完成D. think through想出解决办法，帮助你通过困难的地方，选C。 |
举一反三
Steve Nash enjoys team success far more than personal success, and always wants to share the glory and the joy with teammates.
He is a self-effacing (不爱出风头的) Canadian, who grew up in hockey country. Today Steve Nash has to stand alone even if he doesn’t enjoy it. The Phoenix Sun’s point guard has to take ownership of a set of skills that sets him apart from every bigger, faster basketball player. He is considered the best basketball player in the game.
31-year old Nash was named the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the NBA on May 8, 2005. “It’s unbelievable,” he said. “It’s been a long road for me and I really enjoy playing as a team, just trying to be a good teammate. That is the only way for me to highlight what I do as a basketball player.”
It is the first time a Canadian has won any individual NBA honor. Of the 50 winners of the MVP award, only six have been guards: Steve Nash, Magic Johnson, Oscar Robertson, Michael Jordan, Allen Iverson, and Bob Cousy. “I’m happy for him getting the MVP, which makes us feel like we all got the MVP,” said Phoenix forward Shawn Marion.
He may be the only one who truly believes he can reach this level. “I always try to set goals for myself and have my own time frame to accomplish them and I never give up on anything,” he said. It is not as if Nash arrived at this point without countless hours of hard work.
His interests go far beyond sports and the NBA. His social conscience is such that he wore a T-shirt bearing an anti-war slogan at the NBA all-star weekend festivities in Philadelphia in 2002.
“A lot of great moments are when you win games with your teammates. There’s nothing like sharing something with someone else,” he said. “There is a pinnacle (顶点) of a player’s career individually. In many ways, the pinnacle of a player’s career really is defined by team wins.”
小题1:What does Steve Nash mean by saying the last two sentences?| A．A player’s success is decided by his / her individual efforts. | | B．A player won’t succeed without a team’s support. | | C．A player will succeed sooner or later. | | D．A team always decides a player’s success. |
小题2:Steve Nash feels happiest _______.| A．when he is named the Most Valuable Player of the NBA | | B．when he is 30 years old | | C．when he plays at the NBA all-star weekend festivities | | D．when his team wins a game |
小题3:Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?| A．Nash is an American basketball player. | | B．Nash is better at basketball than Magic Johnson. | | C．Nash is the first Canadian winner of the MVP award. | | D．Michael Jordan is the best of the six guards. |
小题4: Which of the following is the main message that the passage wants to express?
A. Nash prefers team honor to personal honor.
B. Hard work will lead to the honor of the MVP of the NBA.
C. A Canadian can be an MVP of the NBA.
D. Setting goals is of importance to success. |
Norman Cousins was a businessman from the United States who often traveled around the world on business. He enjoyed his and traveling.
Then, after returning to the United States from a trip to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR), Mr. Cousins got sick. Because he had pushed his body to the of its strength on the trip, a change began to take place him. The material between his bones became .
In less than one week after his return, he could not . Every move that he was painful. He was not able to sleep at night. The doctors told him that they did not know how to cure Mr. Cousins’ problem and he might never over the illness. Mr. Cousins, however, refused to give up . Mr. Cousins thought that thoughts were causing bad chemical changes in his body. He did not want to take medicine to cure himself. , he felt that happy thoughts or might cure his illness.
He began to on himself while still in the hospital by watching funny shows on television. Mr. Cousins quickly found that 10 minutes of real laughter during the gave him two hours of pain-free sleep at night. the doctors could not help him, Mr. Cousins left the hospital and checked into (登记住宿) a hotel room where he could his experiments with laughter. For eight days, Mr. Cousins rested in the hotel room watching funny shows on television, reading funny books, and sleeping __ he felt tired. Within three weeks, he felt well to take a vacation to Puerto Rico where he began running on the beach for . After a few months, Mr. Cousins returned to work. He had laughed himself back to .
| 小题1: | | A．time | B．holiday | C．sleep | D．work |
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| 小题2: | | A．boring | B．tiring | C．dangerous | D．pleasant |
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| 小题3: | | A．top | B．degree | C．problem | D．limit |
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| 小题4: | | A．from | B．around | C．inside | D．beside |
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| 小题5: | | A．weak | B．ill | C．false | D．strong |
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| 小题6: | | A．speak | B．breathe | C．stand | D．see |
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| 小题9: | | A．effort | B．hope | C．treatment | D．arrangement |
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| 小题10: | | A．foolish | B．unusual | C．funny | D．unhappy |
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| 小题11: | | A．Instead | B．However | C．Therefore | D．Otherwise |
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| 小题12: | | A．sleep | B．travel | C．laughter | D．television |
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| 小题13: | | A．beat | B．operate | C．try | D．experiment |
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| 小题14: | | A．day | B．week | C．month | D．year |
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| 小题15: | | A．Promising | B．Telling | C．Imagining | D．Guessing |
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| 小题16: | | A．invent | B．begin | C．continue | D．prove |
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| 小题17: | | A．until | B．whenever | C．unless | D．so that |
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| 小题18: | | A．soon | B．very | C．slowly | D．enough |
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| 小题19: | | A．exercise | B．illness | C．rest | D．pleasure |
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| 小题20: | | A．power | B．sense | C．health | D．happiness |
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Davey wanted to play baseball. But fifty years ago, in his small town, he couldn’t find enough players for two full teams or an empty lot big enough for a field. And when he played ball in his back yard, he just broke windows and got into trouble. So Davey began playing with a plastic golf ball and a broom handle for a bat.
When his dad, David Mullaney, a former semi-pro baseball pitcher(投手), realized his son was hurting his arm trying to throw curves with the little plastic ball, he decided to find a better solution. Mullaney got a bunch of hollow plastic spheres from a local factory, sat down at his kitchen table and began cutting different size holes in the balls with a razor knife. He thought maybe the holes would alter the ball’s flight and help his son throw curves and sliders without hurting his arm.
All the balls failed—except the one with the eight oblong(长椭圆形的) holes cut into one of the hemispheres. This ball curved naturally and sharply without a violent snap of the wrist. In fact, Davey was now striking out so many batters; he called his new ball a “wiffle ball”. A year later, Mullaney borrowed $20,000 from family and friends and started producing Wiffle Balls in his little suburban town of Shelton, Connecticut.
“I didn’t want investors.” He said, “I wanted to control my own company.” This was the beginning of one of the hottest fads(时尚) of the fifties and a perennial(长久的) best seller well known all around the world. Since then millions of boys and girls have enjoyed countless hours of safe, wholesome fun playing with a Wiffle ball and bat. Esquire Magazine has even called the Wiffle Ball “a national treasure”. By producing a high quality product at an affordable price, three generations of Mullany’s have enjoyed the satisfaction and benefits of running a successful and profitable family business.
Over the years, they’ve had plenty of offers to buy them out, but they’re still working out of a small factory in Shelton, making a new Wiffle Ball every couple of seconds. Creativity and persistence are two of the important sources for wealth. If he gave up his attempts at trying new things, Mullany would not have invented the wiffle ball, nor would he have made such a big fortune.
小题1:From the passage we can know that . | A．Mullaney made the invention of Wiffle ball with the help of his son | | B．fifty years ago people didn’t like playing baseball very much | | C．Mullaney’s attempts to help Davey better enjoy ball-playing led to the invention of Wiffle ball | | D．playing balls would hurt one’s arm before the Wiffle ball’s appearance |
小题2:All the following are true EXCEPT .| A．Davey was a good ballplayer after the Wiffle ball came into existence | | B．David Mullaney wanted to run the family business on his own | | C．Mullaney’s family made a big fortune through the production of Wiffle balls | | D．Mullaney’s business was nearly bought out but they worked hard to keep it |
小题3:The underlined word “spheres” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to .| A．balls | B．bottles | C．bags | D．boxes |
小题4:The two important factors for Mullaney’s successful family business are .| A．time and fortune | B．persistence and creativity | | C．quality and fame | D．cooperation and efforts |
小题5:The passage mainly tells us something about . | A．Davey, a famous baseball player | B．a popular ball game in the 1950’s | | C．the birth of Wiffle ball | D．the success of a family business |
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Tess was a precocious(早熟) eight-year-old girl when she heard her Mom and Dad taling about her little brother,Andrew.____ __she knw was that he was very sick and they were completely _____money. They were moving to an apartment complex next month because Daddy didn’t have the money for the doctor’s bills and their house .Only a(n) _____could save him now.
Tess went to her bedroom and pulled a glass jelly(果冻) jar from its hiding place. She poured all the out on the floor and counted carefully. Three times,even.The total had to be absolutely exact. No here for mistakes. After carefully placing the coins back in the jar, she slipped out of the back door, and her way six blocks to a chemist’s.
She waited patiently for the pharmacist (药剂师) to give her some ,but he was too busy at this moment. Tess twisted her feet to make a noise. Nothing. She cleared her with the most awful sound she could muster. No good.
Finally the pharmacist asked in an tone of voice, “What do you want? I’m talking to my brother from Chicago I haven’t seen in ages,” he said without waiting for a reply to his question.
“Well, I want to talk to you about my brother,” Tess answered back in the same annoyed tone. “His name is Andrew and he has something bad inside his head and my daddy says only a miracle can save him now. So how much does a miracle cost?”
“We don’t sell miracles here, little girl. I’m sorry, I can’t help you,” the pharmacist said, his voice a little.
There was a man there whose clothes were admirable. He asked the little girl, “What kind of a miracle does your brother need?”
“I don’t know” Tess replied with tears in her eyes. “I just know he"s sick and Mommy says he needs an operation. But my Daddy can’t pay it, so I want to use my money.”
“How much do you have?” asked the man. “One dollar and eleven cents,” Tess answered.
“A dollar and eleven cents ― the price of a miracle for your little brother,” smiled the man, “Take me to you live. Let’s see if I have the kind of miracle you need.”
That well-dressed man was Dr. Carlton Armstrong, a surgeon, specializing in neurosurgery (神经外科). The operation was completely charge and it wasn’t long before Andrew was home again and did well.
Mom and Dad were happy but they wonder how much the operation would have . Tess smiled. She knew exactly how much a miracle cost…one dollar and eleven cents…plus the of a little child.
| 小题1: | | A．As | B．All | C．All what | D．That |
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| 小题2: | | A．in need | B．in short | C．out of | D．sort of |
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| 小题3: | | A．miracle | B．doctor | C．God | D．operation |
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| 小题4: | | A．change | B．jellies | C．candies | D．cookies |
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| 小题5: | | A．way | B．doubt | C．chance | D．wonder |
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| 小题6: | | A．drove | B．fought | C．made | D．struggled |
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| 小题7: | | A．pills | B．attention | C．medicine | D．tablets |
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| 小题8: | | A．mouth | B．eyes | C．ears | D．throat |
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| 小题9: | | A．anxious | B．exciting | C．annoyed | D．tired |
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| 小题10: | | A．who | B．where | C．because | D．which |
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| 小题11: | | A．finding | B．planting | C．showing | D．growing |
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| 小题13: | | A．soft | B．soften | C．softened | D．softening |
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| 小题14: | | A．really | B．real | C．firm | D．firmly |
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| 小题16: | | A．actual | B．exact | C．average | D．true |
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| 小题17: | | A．the place | B．the apartment | C．the complex | D．where |
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| 小题18: | | A．free | B．free of | C．not | D．no |
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| 小题19: | | A．spent | B．paid | C．cost | D．took |
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| 小题20: | | A．thought | B．value | C．patience | D．faith |
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Twelve years ago, when I was 50,I wondered what 60 or 70 would be like? I looked around and saw only one style of living. It’s not fair, I thought. Young people have so many styles to choose from, but older people have just one choice. So I decide to do something about it , something practical.
I worked on my fitness by joining exercise classes in town. A few years later, my husband and I moved to a retirement community, and I wanted to teach aerobic（有氧运动的）classes. The community center wouldn’t give me a room to teach in, so I had to walk around and find any available empty room.
One day, the community center staff came to me and asked if I would help with the entertainment for a Hawaiian luau（夏威夷式宴会）they were putting on. I said yes. Then I talked five other ladies into dancing with me. We performed the hula（呼啦舞）and a war chant and brought the house down. Someone had a camera and took pictures, and then sent them to our local paper. We got requests for more engagements, which in turn led to more publicity and yet more engagements. Soon we had invitations from all over the country. The Dancing Grannies were born!
I think the real secret of the Dancing Grannies is out attitude. I was raised extremely poor ---no-food poor. If we wanted toys we had to make things up to play with ,so I learned early to be very creative. And you know,I think being poor was one of the best things that ever happened to me because I learned to look for treasures.
That’s what I’m still doing today—looking for the treasure in growing old. I’m getting better and better.
It’s true that antiques have to be treated a bit differently, with a little care, but they still have a beauty of their own.
小题1:What did the writer think of the living style of the older people when she was 50?| A．Unsatisfying | B．Favorable | C．Pleasant | D．Practical |
小题2:Why did the writer have to walk around and find an empty room? | A．Because she couldn’t offer an expensive room. | | B．Because she wasn’t given a room to teach in by the community center. | | C．Because she wanted to find a better one. | | D．Because she wanted to keep fit by walking. |
小题3:What can we infer from the writer’s performance? | A．It was just so-so. | B．It was a failure. | | C．It was average. | D．It was a success. |
小题4:What made the writer learn to look for treasures?| A．Being active | B．Being creative | | C．Being rich | D．Being poor |
小题5:What does the underlined word “antiques” (in the last paragraph) refer to? | A．Ancient treasures | B．Poor children | | C．Old people | D．The Dancing Grannies |
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